InkTracks

Drawing and painting, to create a mindful path through my days.

Friday, November 30, 2012

the earring was the hardest thing

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A 3-hour oil painting on Arches oil paper. In my workshop group we had a lot of discussion about what color the earring should be (it wa...
Wednesday, November 28, 2012

the aerial view

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A different angle on a familiar view. Pencil in the Paper Blanks journal.
Tuesday, November 27, 2012

bear behind a bush

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It's an abstract, of palette scrapings. But when I saw the scan, I saw a bear behind a large bush. It's human to look at any coll...
Monday, November 26, 2012

idle bunnies

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Sketching a Goebbel figure, charcoal and (separately) pencil on Strathmore pastel paper.
Thursday, November 22, 2012

rainbow gel pens--3 sketches

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These gel pens that change color (5 colors in each pen) are great fun. These 3 sketches show how the colors progressed in one pen. Mostl...
Wednesday, November 21, 2012

reading cherub

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This model is a cheap clay cherub underneath her rosy glow, but any reader makes a good image. And good painting practice. Water soluble...
Monday, November 19, 2012

sunsetlike, I guess

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It's actually palette leavings scraped on to an 8x10 canvas board.
Sunday, November 18, 2012

3 male readers of Bujold's books

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 Pencil on Bee paper.
Saturday, November 17, 2012

2 women, Bujold readers

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I switched to pencil for members of the audience. On Bee Sketch paper.
Thursday, November 15, 2012

Lois McMaster Bujold

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She spoke at a local bookstore, and read from a partially finished novella with Miles Vorkosigan. Gray fibertip on Bee Sketch paper.
Wednesday, November 14, 2012

scattered leaves

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Inspired by leaves on the patio. Acrylic on 8x8 canvas board.
Tuesday, November 13, 2012

scraped palette abstract

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After mixing a lot of paint to create various experimental shades, I used a palette knife to spread and scrape them into a linear abstract...
Monday, November 12, 2012

G's portrait

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Not sure I'll go back to tweak this one, but it's dry enough for scanning. I'm doing 11x14s, which don't completely fit ...
Saturday, November 10, 2012

J in the chair, halfway done

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This is 2 hours into the painting. It's dry now, and I'll go back to work on it more, but decided to scan it while I could. I di...
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Nita Van Zandt
Living in New Hampshire, loving where line and color take me.
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